"This remarkable collection of documents from the Soviet Union in the 1930s provides a wide-angle lens on the decade's dizzying events. Through citizens' letters to newspapers and party officials, ...
Hoe God verdween uit Jorwerd is de biografie van een dorp tijdens de stille revolutie tussen 1945 en 1995. Het is het verhaal van de boeren en het geld, van de kleine winkeliers en de oprukkende st...
Het Malieveld, de Afsluitdijk, de Waalsdorpervlakte, Westerbork, Srebrenica, Bartlehiem, Dodewaard... Het zijn plaatsen die op een bepaald moment in de twintigste eeuw in het middelpunt van de Nede...
Middeleeuwse hagiografie van de 9e eeuwse bisschop van Utrecht Radboud, naamgever van de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.
'Hoe kunnen we deze geschiedenis ooit aan onze kleinkinderen vertellen, het verhaal over die laatste maanden van 2004? Wat zullen we ons nog herinneren? Het doorstoken lichaam in de Linnaeusstraat?...
This is an account of the ordinary working people of Holland in the seventeenth-century, the so-called 'golden age'. Professor van Deursen is the most outstanding and gifted scholar at present work...
This ambitious study presents the latest views on Dutch society during the famous Golden Age. Philosophy, religion and the arts are treated at length, and particular attention is paid to the instit...
Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupt...
In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible sy...
This book presents a side of Russian life that is largely unknown to the West--the world of popular culture. By surveying detective and science fiction, popular songs, jokes, box office movie hits...
How could the baba - traditionally, the "backward" Russian woman - be mobilized as a "comrade" in the construction of a new state and society? Drawing on newly available archival materials, Elizabe...
The Soviet project of creating a new culture and society entailed a plan for the modeling of "new" persons who embodied and fulfilled the promise of socialism, and this vision was expressed in the ...
Between 1934 and 1941 Stalin unleashed what came to be known as "The Great Terror" against millions of Soviet citizens. This book is a study of how ordinary Russians experienced life during this pe...
This book traces the evolution of religious attitudes in an important transitional period in Russian history. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Russia saw the gradual decline of monastic s...
Since its first publication thirty years ago, Timothy Ware's book has become established throughout the English-speaking world as the standard introduction to the Orthodox Church. Orthodoxy continu...
How a country views its children reveals a great deal about that country. This landmark history of childhood in twentieth-century Russia presents an enthralling and detailed picture of a society wh...
In Bolshevik Russia, the successful transformation of young people into communists was crucial for the future of the Soviet state. Soviet youth needed to be shaped into communists in every aspect o...
When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they believed that under socialism the family would "wither-away." They envisioned a society in which communal dining halls, daycare centers, and public l...
Church-state relations have undergone a number of changes during the seven decades of the existence of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s the state was politically and financially weak and its edicts o...
Revolution on My Mind is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia. We see into the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives during an extraordinary period of...
This is a history of Soviet education policy 1921-34 that places special emphasis upon the theme of social mobility through education. One of the hitherto untold stories of Soviet history is the ma...
"Life has become more joyous, comrades."--Josef Stalin, 1936Stalin’s Russia is best known for its political repression, forced collectivization and general poverty. Caviar with Champagne presents...
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Orthodox Christianity in Russia has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence. Many Russians are now looking to the history of their faith as they try to rebuild a lo...
Renovating Russia is a richly comparative investigation of late Imperial and early Soviet medico-scientific theories of moral and social disorder. Daniel Beer argues that in the late Imperial years...
Winner of the 1993 Wayne S. Vucinich Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Co-winner of the 1993 Heldt Prize from the Association of Women in Slavic Studie...
This collection offers a pioneering new account of the relationship between literature and other cultural forms in Late Imperial Russia and Revolutionary Russia. The contributors here recontextuali...
In this sweeping history, Steven Marks tells the fascinating story of how Russian figures, ideas, and movements changed our world in dramatic but often unattributed ways. On Europe's periphery, ...
The coming of Christianity to the state of Kievan Rus' at the end of the tenth century had an enormous impact on the development of Russian civilization. Despite the abandonment of the pagan gods,...
For decades Stalinist literature, film, and art was almost exclusively deemed political propaganda imposed from on high, devoid of any aesthetic significance. In this book, Evgeny Dobrenko suggests...
Lays out the links between political, economic, social, and cultural phenomena that have made Russia what it is - a world at once familiar and mysterious to Western observers.
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin, brilliantly conveying the reality of their te...
In 1918 the People’s Commissariat of Public Health began a quest to protect the health of all Soviet citizens, but health became more than a political platform or a tactical decision. The Soviets...
This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be all...
An athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a movie scenarist takes to writing restaurant reviews. Intrepid women hunt bears, drive in automobile races, and...
Russische vertaling van Johan Huizinga's: In de schaduw van morgen; Der Mensch und die Kultur; Geschonden wereld
Physical - graze - knowing how to sit, stand or walk was one of the accomplishments proper to the early modern elite. This richly illustrated volume examines the upbringing of well-to do children i...
Het klinkt misschien vreemd, maar de grauwe, onderdrukkende USSR was gegrondvest op een sprookje. Zij stoelde op een vorm van twintigste-eeuwse magie: de planeconomie. Die zou leiden tot een golf v...
Combining concepts and methodologies from anthropology, history, linguistics, literature, music, cultural studies, and film studies, this collection of ten original essays addresses issues crucial ...
During the 1930s, Stalin and his entourage rehabilitated famous names from the Russian national past in a propaganda campaign designed to mobilize Soviet society for the coming war. Legendary heroe...
Explores popular devotion to the cult of saints in late imperial and early Soviet Russia.
In the heart of Russia, fairy stories, folk art and customs still carry hints of the old ways of perceiving the gods and spirits of home and nature. The Russian soul, whether in the city or the cou...
How did rock music and other products of Western culture come to pervade youth culture in Brezhnev-era Dniepropetrovsk, a Ukrainian city essentially closed to outsiders and heavily policed by the K...
'Fighting Words is an intelligent, unpretentious, and compact monograph, and scholars dealing with Imperial Russia will find it helpful ... Fighting Words is thoroughly documented, well written, an...
Vertaling uit het Frans: ' La Vie quotiedienne en Russie au Temps du dernier Tsar'
Russische vertaling van Johan Huizinga's Herfst der Middeleeuwen
Donald Raleigh's Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the fascinating life stories of t...
Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise...
Perevod c cheshkogo: I. Machul'skoi
Hoe dachten Nederlandse burgers in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw over vriendschap? Aan de hand van levendige citaten uit brieven, dagboeken en andere persoonlijke documenten laat Kooijmans zien...
Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St Petersburg is one of the world's most alluring cities - a place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. Yet ...
In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the Third Rome. By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. ...
Perevod c Gollandskogo: D.V. Silvestrov
Perevod c frantsuzckogo: Paul Zumthor - 'La vie quotodienne en Hollande au temps de Rembrant'
A hilarious yet profound and revealing look at the Dutch, their customs and their mentality. This exquisite satire explores the most diverse aspects of daily Dutch life, from coffee to child rearin...
Deze lijvige uitgave biedt een overzicht van de rijke Nederlandse vertelcultuur. Per provincie worden, alfabetisch op plaatsnamen gerangschikt, honderden sagen en legenden gepresenteerd over o.a. w...
Abraham Kuyper is known as the energetic Dutch Protestant social activist and public theologian of the 1898 Princeton Stone Lectures, the Lectures on Calvinism. In fact, the church was the point fr...
Lof der Zotheid werd in 1509 geschreven en sedertdien is het onverminderd populair gebleven. Het tekent een onvergetelijk portret van de mensheid, via een lofrede van de godin Zotheid op zichzelf. ...
A compelling study of “new sincerity” as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows The global cultural practic...